THE READING COMPREHENSION TEST

This test is designed to measure how well you understand what you read. It contains 20 questions. Some ask you to decide how two sentences are related. Others ask you to read passages of various lengths. You will be asked to interpret and draw conclusions from what you have read.

In this test, you will read passages of 50 to 90 words and then answer questions based on those readings. Half of the test questions ask about information that is stated in the passage. The other half will ask you to identify the main ideas, or fact vs. opinion, or the author’s point of view.

Each student taking this test will be presented with a series of 20 questions of two primary types. The first type consists of a reading passage followed by a question based on the text. Both short and long narratives are provided. The reading passages can be classified according to the kind of information processing required, including explicit statements related to the main idea, explicit statements related to the secondary idea, application and inference.

The second type of question, sentence relationships, presents two sentences followed by a question about the relationship between these two sentences. The question may ask, for example, if the statement in the second sentence supports that in the first, if it contradicts it, or if it repeats the same information.